inside the driftwood box the lifeless body of a real girl
has she also been eliminated?
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- Nov 2017
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with his own mouth.
is it not the norm to use ones mouth to relay information to someone right in front of you in this universe?
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laying out
is this a funeral?
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single turd
what is a turd? is there a new definition or the same definition?
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the light encircling the boy’s head
is it a halo?
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an uncle on the database, long ago located, eliminated
what kind of futuristic world eliminates? is this the same as execution or prison
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girl child
saw this term early in the semester in the barbie doll poem i think it was.
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- Oct 2017
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In the Great American Indian novel, when it is finally written, all of the white people will be Indians and all of the Indians will be ghosts.
Alexie is saying that if the story is written "correctly" then white people will feel like they loved the story and the indians will feel like this is just another book filled with stereotypes
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savage
the stereotype that indians are savage
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She should be compared to nature
because of her native indian background?
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horse culture
what is horse culture
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he must be a half-breed,
is Alexie inferring that a full native cannot be loved.
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- Sep 2017
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he invariably and without intending it, nay, in spite of a purpose to the contrary
I wonder if this statement is saying yes he did purposely make it about her birthmark. The nay makes me wonder.
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His love for his young wife might prove the stronger of the two; but it could only be by intertwining itself with his love of science, and uniting the strength of the latter to his own.
A foreshadowing of how he will make her birthmark an obsession of science.
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We know not whether Aylmer possessed this degree of faith in man’s ultimate control over Nature.
Of course he does. His God complex drives his obsession to find that control over nature.
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In those days when the comparatively recent discovery of electricity and other kindred mysteries of Nature seemed to open paths into the region of miracle, it was not unusual for the love of science to rival the love of woman
The new discoveries in science were exciting. I feel like Aylmer is trying to discover his own electricity in nature.
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spiritual affinity
I wonder what this means. What is an affinity?
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